BEAR HUG has established and opened approximately 40 relaxation locations.
(We plan to open a total of about 100 locations by the end of 2016.)
Our group locations have reached about 60 when we include our other relaxation locations, such as dental clinics, osteopathic clinics, and internal medicine clinics.
The BEAR HUG Group operates its relaxation business as the top company in the Japanese relaxation market which is expected to become a huge market exceeding approximately 12 trillion yen.

BEAR HUG cultivates therapists with professional relaxation skills that serve to assist customers and that are appreciated, needed and attracted by customers.
We provide quite a unique educational curriculum, which we developed and certified according to ISO9001.

Services

A course for acquiring necessary skills for sports training therapists, ordinary therapists (facial and body treatments with oil / foot therapy), and aestheticians (facial and body aesthetic treatments with oil), for just one month at earliest.

BEAR HUG started with relaxation business.
The relaxation department of BEAR HUG, which attracts massage connoisseurs and professional therapists, has provided customers with body care services of high quality.
We have developed our locations across the country mainly based in Tokyo and Nagoya.
Our aim is to deliver an unchanging spirit, “To deal with all people with affection,” to all of those feeling tired nationwide.

Our aesthetic department was born from at the request of our customers.
All women and men have a desire to remain beautiful or handsome forever.
We offer our heartfelt therapies so that our customers can stay healthy and beautiful.

Services

Aromatherapies, facial therapies, nail treatments, epilation, etc.

Our chiropractic department is committed to provide pain removal therapies.
We have devoted ourselves to provide reliable chiropractic therapies as a community-based chiropractic clinic.
We also provide therapies tailored to each customer’s body condition, offering treatments covered by insurance, self-pay treatments, and relaxation therapies. To offer care to our customers without missing the distress signals from their bodies so that they and feel better ? this is our goal.

From time to time as you use your body and increase in age, you may need some care and therapy.
Anybody can suffer from toothache or a gum disease, and such tooth related diseases cannot be overlooked.
Because of that, we believe that we should provide careful treatment for our patients.
The dental department was started as a company to be always a part of each individual patient’s life.

Only physicians can give necessary treatments to patients suffering from diseases. Therefore, we chose to collaborate with physicians having a broad range of medical knowledge.
We try to explain to you about your body in your language, until you can fully understand your condition.
From medications for colds to preventative medical treatments, we protect the health of you and your loving ones.

In 2014, BEAR HUG launched our new care department.
We have in mind to assist those people who created peaceful and rich time for as after living through turbulent times. We would like to express our heartfelt appreciation so that they are satisfied with their peaceful life. In this department we have the desire to implement and integrate our management policy of “Caring for All People With Affection,” into this department.

Corporate name

BEAR HUG Co., Ltd.

Corporate address

Akasaka Central Bldg. 5F, 3-13-3 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Establishment

Apr. 18, 1998, and in June the same year, BEAR HUG Inc.

Foundation

Nov. 8, 2010, BEAR HUG Co., Ltd.

President

Narita Tatsushi

No. of employees

400 (as of February of 2014)

Categories of business

Operation and management of clinics of bodywork, aesthetic services, chiropractic therapies, and acupuncture and moxibustion treatments
Cultivation of relaxation therapists and aestheticians

To create a sincere clinic where every one of our customers to feel relaxed and satisfied wholeheartedly

To create a workplace where every one of our staff members can enjoy working with confidence and feel delight in their work

To create a company where every one of our employees can grow toward their own valuable goal

To have everyone make contributions to the society through our health business

BEAR HUG will become a company that always provides the world with the latest relaxation services.

The BEAR HUG Group aims to become the best company in Japan as a total health company that provides relaxation business, aesthetic services, medications, hospitals, and care services and protects the body and heart for people in their 20s to their 70s.

We are also seriously trying to be a company that can consider both physical and mental needs of all staff members, in order to cultivate kind and affectionate staff members that can work for the world and people, and live right.

Foundation Stage

Apr. 1997

BEAR HUG Zenkai Clinic was founded and opened in Akasaka, Mintao-ku, Tokyo

Jun. 1997

BEAR HUG Inc. was founded with capital of 3,000,000 yen

Dec. 1997

Signed a contract with LE VAN Co., Ltd. and established a clinic in a sports club

Apr. 1997
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Dec. 1997

No. of the shops/clinics increased to 4

Developing Stage

Apr. 2000

JASCAT was established and Tokyo Sports Training Academy (TSTA) was established A school to cultivate body setters, foot reflection massagers, and sports trainers was established based on coordination with Japan Baseball Promotion Association

Jul. 2000

A clinic accompanied with a school was established

Nov. 2000

Organizational change to BEAR HUG Co., Ltd. and the capital was increased to 10,000,000 yen

Apr. 2001

LE VAN Co., Ltd. merged with TIPNESS Limited

Dec. 2002

The Nagoya branch of TSTA was established

Apr. 2000
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Dec. 2002

No. of the shops/clinics increased to 12 from 4

Transformation Stage I

Mar. 2003

24-hour operation started and schools and clinics were divided

Oct. 2003

Business alliance was concluded with JREASTSPORTS Co., Ltd. / The JR original brand (relaxation) was launched / A Petit Rich relaxation salon was established while being in charge of technical education and maintenance, financing, and training

Feb. 2004

Clinics and shops where a national certificate services (Judo therapists, acupuncture and moxibustion practitioners, and licensed masseurs) and civilian services (Body setters, chiropractic therapists, trainers, and foot masseurs) were started

Mar. 2004

TIPNESS withdrew from the business

Mar. 2003
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Mr. 2004

No. of shops/clinics increased to 14 from 12

Transformation Stage II

Apr. 2004

Changed to an active corporate sales operation

Jul. 2005

Collaborated with JR Sports Club Jexer

Sep. 2005

FACIAL & BODYMAKE B. GARDENS was opened

Jul. 2006

Corporate name changed to BEAR HUG Co., Ltd. and the capital was increased to 70,000,000 yen

Oct. 2006

Certified as ISO9001

Feb. 2007

Facial exclusive care service was started

Apr. 2004
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Aug. 2011

No. of shops/clinics was increased to 29 from 14

Transformation Stage III

Jan. 2008

New vision, “Wakuwaku,” was formulated

May. 2008

Yugawara and Yamanaka-ko in-service training institutes were opened

Jul. 2010

Planning to open shops/clinics in the Chubu region and the Kansai region was strengthened

May. 2011

Overseas vision was formulated

Oct. 2011

The “Shishi” project to open shops/clinics in the Chubu region and the Kansai region was implemented